As the healthcare sector undergoes a major digital transformation, organizations are generating large and increasingly complex sets of health, environment and spatial data that can be leveraged to address health disparities and emerging threats.

Gov. Wes Moore has appointed Dr. Stephen B. Thomas, professor of health policy and management at UMD’s School of Public Health and director of the Maryland Center for Health Equity (M-CHE), to serve as a health expertise member of the Governor’s Wellmobile Program Advisory Board. 

America is an aging nation – and how to age well is a complex question that University of Maryland’s Center for SUNSHINE (Center for Seniors Uniting Nationwide to Support Health, INtegrated care, and Economics) is entirely dedicated to.

In October 2025, early-career researchers and doctoral students from U21 member institutions and a policy leader convened in Dublin for the biannual Universitas 21 Health Research Exchange (U21HREx) symposium. Chaired by Dr. Negin Fouladi of the University of Maryland (UMD), the U21HREx network brings together participants from UMD, the University of Birmingham and University College Dublin as a growing global community of practice.

At the turn of the new year, many people who get their insurance through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplace and use subsidies could see monthly premiums double or triple as ACA subsidies expire. Two experts at University of Maryland’s School of Public Health have been following developments closely. 

At the end of his father’s life in 2020, Taha Nasir found himself spending unending hours in the hospital surrounded by the complexity of the healthcare system. That difficult time shaped a new career goal for Nasir: to work on improving healthcare systems by joining his two passions, business and health, into a career in healthcare management.

Charles “Peewee” Hall III pauses, a pair of buzzing clippers in one hand, his other tilting his customer’s head to the correct angle. 

“It’s just a good idea,” he shrugs. “I want to make sure the youth, the adults and especially the parents who sit in this chair and get their hair cut, get the message about cannabis.” 

About 5,000 miles from the University of Maryland, across the North Atlantic Ocean, Ella Sanvee, a first-generation student getting her master’s degree in health policy and evaluation, spent her summer in Ghana studying the cost effectiveness of two treatment regimens of breast cancer chemotherapy. 

“It takes a village” isn’t just a saying – it’s a foundation backed by research.

Cannabis may be a pain-management substitute for people experiencing chronic or acute pain from conditions like cancer, according to new research co-authored by a University of Maryland researcher.